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title: Multi-Agent Orchestration — RGM Training
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# Multi-Agent Orchestration

Complex tasks. Patterns, orchestration, frameworks, costs, reliability.

### What you will learn

1. [Why multi-agent matters](#why)
2. [Multi-agent patterns](#patterns)
3. [Orchestration](#orchestration)
4. [Use cases](#use-cases)
5. [Frameworks](#frameworks)
6. [Costs](#costs)
7. [Reliability](#reliability)
8. [Advanced playbook](#advanced)
9. [Mistakes](#mistakes)
10. [Checklist](#checklist)

## Why multi-agent

Single agents fail on complex tasks. Multi-agent systems specialize agents per role (researcher, writer, editor, fact-checker) and coordinate. More reliable on complex tasks; harder to engineer.

## Patterns

- **Sequential pipeline:** A → B → C.
- **Hierarchical:** Manager agent delegates to workers.
- **Debate / critique:** Multiple agents argue / refine.
- **Specialist team:** Each agent has role; coordinator manages.
- **Voting / consensus:** Multiple agents output; aggregate.

## Orchestration

- Task decomposition.
- Agent assignment.
- State management between agents.
- Conflict resolution.
- Failure handling.
- Human escalation.
- Logging across agents.

## Use cases

- Content production pipelines (research + draft + edit + fact-check).
- Campaign creation (brief + creative + copy + targeting).
- Customer service routing and resolution.
- Competitive intelligence gathering.
- Lead qualification and outreach.
- Reporting and insight generation.

## Frameworks

- **LangGraph (LangChain):** Graph-based multi-agent.
- **CrewAI:** Role-based multi-agent.
- **AutoGen (Microsoft):** Conversational multi-agent.
- **Anthropic Claude with MCP:** Tool-use chaining.
- **Custom built.**

## Costs

- Multiple LLM calls per task.
- Higher token usage than single agents.
- Coordination overhead.
- Tool API costs.
- Compared to single-agent or human baseline.

## Reliability

- Multi-agent more reliable on complex tasks.
- Each agent simpler; easier to debug.
- Failure isolation.
- But coordination is point of failure.
- Testing harder; emergent behavior.

## Advanced playbook

- Task decomposition discipline.
- Agent role specifications.
- State management documented.
- Failure handling for each agent.
- Human escalation gates.
- Cost monitoring per workflow.
- Reliability testing.
- Annual multi-agent review.
- Cross-functional ownership.
- Documentation and runbooks.

## Mistakes

- Multi-agent for tasks single agent handles.
- Task decomposition unclear.
- State management broken.
- Failure handling absent.
- Cost runaway from coordination.
- Testing skipped; emergent failures.
- Human escalation gates missing.
- Documentation absent.
- Cross-functional ownership unclear.
- Annual review skipped.

## Checklist

- Task decomposition documented
- Agent role specifications
- State management
- Failure handling per agent
- Human escalation gates
- Cost monitoring
- Reliability testing
- Cross-functional ownership
- Documentation and runbooks
- Annual review

## Sources and further reading

- LangGraph documentation
- CrewAI documentation
- AutoGen (Microsoft Research)
- Anthropic MCP documentation
- OpenAI Assistants API
- Andrew Ng multi-agent research
- Andreessen Horowitz agent essays
- Lenny Rachitsky multi-agent cases
- Cognition Devin case study
- Reforge AI curriculum
- Anthropic enterprise cases
- Marketing Brew AI agent coverage

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